Red
Baron, a first
person flight
simulator released
by Atari in 1980,
was developed on the
same wire-frame,
vector graphics
platform as
Battlezone. The
player is an allied
World War I bi-plane
fighter pilot, who
fights against the
Germans and the
infamous ace pilot,
the Red Baron. The
game was split into
a number of levels,
with most of them
being air combat
against a squadron
of enemies. Some
levels featured the
player battling
against ground
targets (pillboxes,
turrets, buildings)
and zeppelins. One
interesting feature
of the game was that
the difficulty level
was controlled by
the average time and
skill of the last 32
players. This was
done in an effort to
keep game time short
in arcades where
players were really
good.

The
original Red Baron
game was released on
the Atari Anthology
and Microsoft Game
Room compilations
for the Xbox,
PlayStation, and PC
in 2003. Some of
you may have even
enjoyed the 1990 PC
version of Red
Baron, that was
released around the
same time that other
popular games were
hitting PC stands,
like Wolfenstein and
Secret Weapons of
the Luftwaffe.